RSS syndicated content from Statalist, a discussion listserv generated by users of StataCorp Stata statistical analysis software. Subscribe to the RSS feed using the links provided in the sidebar. You must join the listserv in order to respond to, or add, new posts. For more information on Statalist, click on the 'Statalist FAQ' link in the sidebar.

At 06:38 PM 3/12/2006, reardon, sean f. wrote:
>colleagues --
>i want to trim leading a trailing blanks off a string entered by a user
>in a program -- the string is saved in local macro "model". the string
>may be very long (longer than 256 characters).
>
>when i use the following line:
>
>local model = trim("`model'")